Dagrin was the ruler who made a sincere and plain amount of inner-city events interesting in the mainstream. Fourteen years down the line, at what looked like the height of his profession, Nigeria had a Tupac/Biggie time with Oladapo Olaitan Olaonipekun, staged under the name Dagrin.
In less than 24 months preceding that, Dagrin had stirred out a desirable collection of seminal albums that are still new and vibrant. Dagrin was a clasp of Nigerian Hip-Hop.
Although it was not a situation of senseless cycle of brutality, just like what killed Tupac and Biggie, it was still a considerable loss that affected the pop world. The streets of Lagos got filled with equal pills of bitterness, pain and crippling unhappiness.
If you played Kendrick Lamar’s “Black Boy Fly” off his amazing debut album, Good Kid Maad City, you would know what life and ambitions of the future looked like for the young ones of inner city culture, where every day is another honour, not a gift.
Cartier, featuring Terry Tha Rapman, Dagrin, Eva and Gino-Owo Ati Swagga
In 2009, Nigerian rapper Cartier dropped what is now obviously a trap song. The break-hit single “Owo Ati Swagger” promoted everything prim, accurate, and bougie. In the time of solid addiction to dance music, there was a little window where rap hugely succeeded between 2008 and 2010, after the grains planted by rappers such as Gino in 2006. The song “Cartier” was a huge hit, and the rapper profited from it.
DJ Neptune, featuring MI Abaga, Naeto C and Dagrin
This was among the best hits that Dagrin has ever featured. It requires no introduction.
Naeto C, featuring Dagrin – Ako Mi Ti Poju (Remix)
Anytime people talk about Dagrin’s best verse; this song is often used in dialogues for most of the reasons. However, when it comes down to it, it shows Dagrin’s capacity to talk about vanity with his brand roots in archetypal Hip-Hop.
Dagrin, featuring Cartier – Swag
This is a Dagrin verse that could simply make it to the top list if the wax and metaphorical citations on the ‘Owo Ati Swagger’ remix were not more solid. Dagrin killed the verse entirely, and he did not even allow first gear.
Dagrin – Kondo
A music rooted in sex and buccaneering profanity, Dagrin informs a girl to come to his house and get down to the “matter” with him as his family is not around. We are happy he denies us the unpleasant details of whether or not the girl went; however, we still concentrate on the strong deliveries of the music’s number 3 verse.
Dagrin, featuring Sossick – Ghetto Dream
The interesting beat, the fascinating tangle from “Mr 70 beats in a week,” and Dagrin’s appluasible introspective penmanship appropriately capture the life of a battling up-and-comer.
7. Oritse Femi, featuring Dagrin and Rhymzo -Mercies of the Lord (remix)
The verse in this song deserves the top position. It had everything, and Dagrin always stayed within the main theme and title of the music.
Dagrin – Pon Pon Pon
It is the biggest Nigerian rap music and the most remixed Nigerian music of the past ten years, and it is not even near. In fact, all the rappers you could think of had ‘ Pon Pon Pon’ remix already.
Dagrin, featuring Isolate – Gboro
This is a good hit. The best verse was the delivery on the two bars before “I’m the prodigy, I’m the best (after) biggie…”. If you understand the way the beats and mixing function, anything slower than this, Dagrin, is good and fast.
Dagrin, featuring T-Frizzle – Hola Hola
This verse caused this list simply because Dagrin could have stuttered on it. Its unpleasantry had an elaborateness for arranfements that possessed everything else on its back. During this time, Dagrin was starved, so he took it regardless. He was not fazed, and he killed it.
While arguments raged concerning the way death took sentiments in judging Dagrin, one thing is certain: Dagrin was a ruler while alive. Nigerians and conductors were playing Hip-Hop and rapping due to Dagrin. That period was arguably the country’s rendition of New York and the West Coast during the early 90s. It is 14 years now, and he still remains in the heart of Nigerians.
